Machine for holding docks of houses



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V I I Horse Stock. NO 1 1 ,34L- j Patented July 18,1854.

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' ITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SEYMOUR TOMLINSON, OF PLEASANT VALLEY, NEW YORIQ,

MACHINE FOR HOLDING BOOKS OF HORSES.

I Specification of Letters Patent No. 11,841, dated July 18, 1854.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, SEYMOUR ToMLINsoN, of the town of Pleasant Valley, in the county of Dutchess and State of New York, have invented a new, useful, and improved machine for the purpose of keeping the dock of horses in place after the operation of docking and pricking has been performed, to be used instead of the old method of fasteningthe clock by the hair and the use of pulleys; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof and of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

The said machine is to be constructed as follows: A piece of iron or other hard substance is to be made nearly in the form of a crupper as used in the common harness, as the same is shown by A A of Figure 1, with a joint in the same as shown at M in Figs. 1 and 2, this is to be fastened under the dock in the same manner that the crupper is used and by connecting the same at P, P with a surcingle by means of the spiral springs F F, said spring connecting with a strap leading to the surcingle by the wire It beneath said springs, and attached to said wire is to be placed a piece of stiff leather to prevent the springs and said wire injuring Said leather is shown in Fig. 1

structed of iron, to be of similar shape with A A but lighter than A'A which holder is shown at B in Figs. 1 and 2. This holder is to be furnished with a back of leather or other suitable substance, shownat D D in Fig. 1, which back is to be fastened to B by means of three movable clasps and thumb screws on each side as shown on one side in Fig. 2 at K K K. The, said holder is to be perforated with holes through center thereof from top to bottom to admit air as shown at I in Figs. 1 and 2. Two sections of said back between said holes and the sides of said back, as shown at H H in Fig. 1, are to be stuffed with curled hair or other similar substance with small holes on the back sides thereof'for admission of air, which holes are shown at N N in Fig. 2. The dock resting on the sections or pads of said back H H is to be raised to aproper elevation bymeans of a spiral spring shown at E, Figs. 1 and 2, or other elastic substance, such spring to be connected by a wire with B at S S, Figs. Land 2, by joints, said spring to be connected with the first mentioned wire at G by a strap shown at L, by which machine the dock is properly elevated without unnecessary pain to the animal and inflammation in the end of the dock is avoided while the same is healing and the air allowed to circulate freely about the same.

Having thus set forth the principle of my invention and the manner of constructing and using the same I wish it to be under-, stood that I do not limit myself to the special construction and arrangement of parts herein specified as those may be varied without change in the principle or mode of operation.

By my invent-ion and improvements the tail of the animal is supported by its sides or by the hair upon its sides resting upon the stuifed sections or pads H II, thereby leaving. the cut, pricked, or scarified portion untouched permitting them to heal much sooner than if the fixtures which support the tail come in contact with them.

What I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent is The stuffed sections or pads H H or their equivalents so constructedas to support the tail of the animal in the required position by itssides and the hair upon the sides so as to leave the cut pricked or scarified portions untouched thereby permitting them to heal much sooner than if the fixtures which support the tail came in contact with them, not intending to claim any of the other parts described or represented.

SEYMOUR TGMLINSON.

Witnesses:

GEORGE W. PAINE, LEWIS TOMLINSON. 

